Ocean Book of the Month
Every month, The Ocean Project highlights a book focused on our blue planet or environmental sustainability. Books for all age groups will be covered, non-fiction and fiction, prose and poetry. If you have a suggestion, please let us know.
Planet Ocean: Photo Stories from the 'Defending Our Oceans' Voyage
by Sara Holden
Planet Ocean is a window into the secret world of the ocean. Through stunning photographs, taken on a sixteen-month Defending Our Oceans expedition, Greenpeace reveals wonderful sights that few people have seen, and also some that certain people would like us not to see. Despite the vastness of the ocean, we now know that they are in crisis, struggling to absorb the impact of our destructive ways. This is the story of our ocean — one of extraordinary beauty and diversity of life. This is the story of the equally astounding ways in which the ocean is exploited.
Barnes and Noble writes:
This stunning photography book brings the drama of the ocean to shore and calls for protected marine reserves.
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."
---Arthur C Clarke
Three quarters of the planet is ocean and 80 per cent of all life lives here. Planet Ocean is a window onto this secret world. Despite the vastness of the ocean, we now know that the ocean is in crisis, struggling to absorb the impact of our destructive ways. This is the story of our oceans – their extraordinary beauty and diversity of life - and the equally astounding ways in which they are exploited.
Sara Holden has worked for Greenpeace International since 2000. Prior to joining the international environmental organization in Amsterdam, she worked for Reuters Television as a political journalist in London and Northern Ireland.
This book should motivate and inspire us to join the movement to create marine protected areas.
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